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Metro Transit giveth and it taketh away, all in one weekend
Rapid Ride bus service launches this weekend (Oct. 2-3), but simultaneous service cuts will hit at the heart of Metro's regional system: densely populated Seattle.
Douglas MacDonald
Doug MacDonald is a pedestrian activist who lives in Seattle’s Greenwood neighborhood. He served as the Secretary of Transportation for Washington state from 2001 until his retirement in 2007.
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A big, new growth management plan is already outgrown
The Puget Sound Regional Council's Vision 2040, to be adopted tomorrow, has been outrun by seven years of population growth in the very outlying areas the plan is intended to protect, says the recent former Washington secretary of transportation. He explains what's happened and argues for a recalibr
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Best of 2011: The sorry state of Seattle's streets
The crisis in repairing pavement of our streets has been getting worse for 25 years. City data shows just how bad the problem has become.